Compressed-air liquid-elevator.



No. 880,570. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1908.

J. H. PHILLIPS.

COMPRESSED AIR LIQUID ELEVATOR. APPLICATION FILED JULY 27,1906.

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JOHN H. PHILLIPS, OF POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMPRESSED-AIR LIQUID-ELEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 3, 1908.

Application filed July 2'7. 1906. Serial No. 328.115.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JOHNYH. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill 'and State'of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Compressed-Air Liquid-Elevator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to compressed air water elevators, and has for its prmci a1 object to provide a mechanism of simp e and economical construction which may be placed at a distance from the well or other source of liquid supply and operated either by hand or power for the purpose of furnishing the compressed air necessary to elevate the water.

A further object of the invention is, to provide a device of this character in which a pair of single acting pumps are connected to a single operating mechanism in such manner as to insure a practically continuous supply of air under ressure.

A still furt ier object of the invention is to provide a novel form of pump operating means.

With these and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter a ear, the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size and minor details of the structure may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings :'Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a compressed air water elevating apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding arts throughout the several figures of the rawm s.

.lhe well 10 or other source of liquid supply is arranged to receive a cylinder 11, said cylinder being supported at a point below the water level, and being rovlded with a suitable inlet valve 12 which is moved to closed osition by pressure within the cylinder. l leading into the upper end of the cylinder is an air supply pipe 13, and leading outward through the top ofthe cylinder is a lii uid discharge pipe 14, the lower end of w iich is adjacent to the bottom of the cylinder. The operation is that commonly practiced, air being forced through the pipe 13 under ressure and displacing the water which owsout through the pipe 14 to any desired point of delivery.

Arranged in the house, barn or at any other convenient point, is a suitable frame 15 that has bearings for three shafts 16, 17 and 18. The shaft 16 carries a spokedbelt wheel 19 to which is secured an eccentric 20, the latter being arranged to operate between a pair of arms 21 that are carried by a walking beam 22 pivoted on a central stud or spindle 23. To the opposite ends of the walking beam are connected rods 24, and the lower ends of the rods are connected to the piston rods or plungers 25 of a pair of single acting pumps 26, these pumps being of any ordinary construction and having their discharge ends connected to the pipe 13. When the shaft 16 is rotated, the eccentric placed between the two arms 21 operates the pumps alternately in such manner as to produce a continuous flow of air through the pipe 13.

The shaft 17 which is arranged above the stud 23 carries a spoked wheel 28, the latter having a long hub 29, and being provided with inclined s okes 30 connected with the rim of the wheel. The spokes at one side of the wheel 28 are provided with small adjustable blocks 31 having projecting lugs 32 that fit within a ring 33 constituting a belt receiving pulley, and this ring 33 is connected to the spoked belt wheel 19 of a belt 34 that is formed of any suitable material.

The rim of the spoked wheel 28 carries a belt 36 which, also, extends around a belt wheel 37 on the shaft 18, and said shaft 18 may be operated either by hand or power 1 for the purpose of imparting movement to the pump.- In operation, the shaft 18 is turned and transmits motion through the belt 36 to the belt wheel 28 and from thence the movement is transmitted through the pulley 33 and belt 34 to the pulley 19. When shaft 16 is turned, the eccentric 20 is carried around, and as the eccentric operates on the arms 21, the walking beam is rocked and the pumps are operated alternately to produce a continuous current of air through the pipes 13 to the cylinder 11. The air displaces the water, the latter being forced out through the pipes 13 to the point of delivery.

In order to measure the air pressure, a

suitable pressure gage may be attached to the air pipe at any desired point.

-While the device has been described prin-' cipally as employed for the raising of Water, it is to be understood that it may be used as a beer pump, as a mine pump or for the raising of any other liquids.

I claim:

In apparatus of the class described, a pair of vertically disposed parallel pumping cylinders, pistons or plungers arranged therein, a continuously revoluble shalt, means for actuating the same, a Walking beam pivoted above the shaft, means for connecting the opposite ends of the Walking beam. to the pistons or plungers of the pumps, a pair of spaced arms depending from said Walking beam, said arms being arranged in parallel relation to each other and equi-distantly spaced from the fulcrum of the Walking beam,- and an eccentric carried by the shaft and playing between said arms to effect alternate operation of the pumps, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto a'HiXed my signature in the presence of tWo witnesses.

JOHN H. PHILLIPS.

l/Vitnesses GEORGE W. RYo-N, FRANK LITTLE. 

